TY - JOUR AU - Qasim Hasan, Shivan AU - Ibrahim Khalil, Kameran PY - 2022/01/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The embodiment of the principles of magical realism in the folk legend of Mame Alan JF - Academic Journal of Nawroz University JA - ACAD J NAWROZ UNIV VL - 10 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.25007/ajnu.v10n4a1203 UR - https://journals.nawroz.edu.krd/index.php/ajnu/article/view/1203 SP - 179-191 AB - <p>Magical realism is a new genre of writing in the contemporary mythical literature in which fantasy and reality are mixed and have a peculiar composition that due to its broad horizons, sometimes it has some common grounds with other literary methods and styles. Though it is regarded as a new literary style and method by many researchers and literary critiques, it remains considered a branch of realism and cannot be viewed as an independent literary school, because it does not have an independent and modern framework and because in it are reflected many of foundations and peculiarities of realism.</p><p>&nbsp;Due to strange fundamentals, removal of borders where reality and fantasy, unique dreams and deeds, and unreasonable actions are mixed, it is possible to search for the fundamentals and dimensions of magical realism in Kurdish literature, namely in the mythical literature. For achieving this objective, the subject matter of this study has been taken from Kurdish literature. The legend of Mame Alan is selected to check to what degree fundamentals of magical realism can be identified in this legend.</p> ER -